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🍫 While indulging in some #Halloween treats tonight, consider this sweet tale: Our VP of Product & Strategy, Jon Karlin, once relished The Hershey Company chocolates at a NYTechWeek event, all in the name of product-testing. The event, titled "Driving Business and Brand Longevity via Tech-Enabled Sensorial Strategy," led by Calista Corley (Highlight) and Mike Wong (Orveon Global), showcased the essence of integrating physical product-testing with data analytics to enhance feedback loops and speed up product evolution. 🎃 So, as you savor those leftover candies, ponder over your own testable product development feedback loops. After all, in the realm of #DigitalProductDevelopment, there's nothing spookier than a product sent to market untested! #DataDriven #ProductTesting #UserTesting #DigitalTransformation

🎯 "The first version of a product typically doesn't last that long if you're going through massive scaling." Jason Monberg discussed this and more in a recent podcast conversation, all based on his 25 years of experience developing technical digital products for ambitious startups and Fortune 500s. He also revealed: • Why Facebook rewrote their codebase 5-6 times during scaling • The counterintuitive power of patience in Silicon Valley • Real talk about AR/VR adoption timelines • Hard-earned lessons on future-proofing your architecture Sharing the full episode soon! Follow our page for key clips about engineering the technical foundations that enable digital products to scale. #TechLeadership #Engineering #ProductDevelopment

🎉 Tonight's the night! We're incredibly honored to host an official TechCrunch side event, bringing together some of tech's most inspiring leaders for authentic conversations about scaling success. We're humbled by the huge response and grateful to our remarkable panelists who are sharing their evening (and their hard-won wisdom) with our community: 🏆 Meet Our Visionary Panel: • Allison Wolff, CEO @ Vibrant Planet • Malini Balakrishnan, CTO at Anza Renewables • Gabrielle Tenaglia, Head of Marketing at Lettuce Financial What makes tonight different: • Unfiltered conversations about what actually works • Leaders who've cracked the growth and scaling code • Meaningful connections with carefully selected fellow tech innovators • Complimentary wine, beer & hors d'oeuvres 📍 Tonight at 5:30 PM PDT To our confirmed guests: We can't wait to welcome you! (Space for first 120 only) To our waitlisted friends: Stay tuned for future events - this is just the beginning. Special thanks to our panelists and the TechCrunch Disrupt events team for making this possible. Here's to conversations that matter and to building relationships in the San Francisco Bay Area technology community! #TechCrunch #Disrupt2024 #SanFrancisco #WomenInTech #TechLeadership https://lu.ma/6h6undck

Security leaders: Before you engage your next SOC audit, review these best practices, misconceptions, and insights for a more effective, efficient process: This #PDF covers: • the different SOC report types and what they are for • how SOC reports can attract more partnerships • common misconceptions to avoid • recommendations for simplifying your SOC audit process • how to find the right auditor and more #socaudit #cybersecurity #CISO #SOC2

Visionary leaders and companies come to us with ideas, and we engineer the digital foundations that make it possible. We've partnered to accelerate digital product development across a wide variety of industries, including healthcare/life sciences, fintech, travel, automotive, e-commerce, education, solar, land management, energy (grids, utilities, storage), and more. No project is too complex for our experienced team. Discover how we've helped digital leaders build the foundations of their big ideas: https://lnkd.in/gVuEbA_Z

Join top SF tech leaders at the # 1 TechCrunch Disrupt Official Side Event, "Scaling Smart" panel, and Happy Hour on Tues, 10/29! Enjoy delicious bites and drinks in a beautiful setting, plus discover strategic insights from leaders who have successfully scaled companies and products. What to Expect: • Hear from Allison Wolff (CEO, Vibrant Planet), Malini Balakrishnan (CTO, Anza Renewables), and Gabrielle Tenaglia (Head of Marketing, Lettuce Financial) on how they’ve analyzed and responded to the market to drive meaningful growth. Our panel will uncover this and more: • What short-term activities to prioritize for long-term success • How to drive product growth in changing markets • Strategies that prepare your product and your company to scale Come for the strategy, stay for top industry networking! RSVP before we hit capacity: https://lu.ma/6h6undck 📅 October 29th, 2024 | 5:30 PM PDT #TechCrunchDisrupt #TechLeadership #ProductDevelopment

We’re thrilled to celebrate the launch of Gatorade.com's new AI-powered bottle tool, where technology, design, and creativity come together to deliver an extraordinary experience for athletes and fans. This project, a collaboration between Work & Co, Gatorade.com, PepsiCo, and Adobe, showcases the power of AI to unlock nearly endless personalization possibilities. With Adobe Firefly, users can now design a bottle that reflects their unique identity, whether it's their team spirit, favorite sport, or personal style. The road to this launch was full of technical and creative challenges — from building a seamless UI for first-time AI users to generating high-quality outputs that respect IP and delivering it all at scale. But the result is an innovative tool that’s fun, easy to use, and completely customizable. Watching this collaboration across design, development, and strategy come to life has been inspiring. Huge congratulations to the Work & Co team for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and bringing such an exciting project into the world! Check it out at Gatorade.com/ai to see what you can create. #DigitalInnovation #AIProducts #Gatorade

The ultimate front-end developer conference, FITC's Web Unleashed, is happening today in Toronto! Catch Work & Co & Co's Group Technology Director Sarah Mogin for a talk on "Surviving (And Thriving) in a Changing Front-End Landscape." She's talking about: • How to survive when your job description suddenly includes DevOps, middleware, mobile, and more • Finding opportunities amidst changing expectations • Managing imposter syndrome and cognitive overload • Identifying where to direct your time and energy • Measuring your value as a developer, even as your job changes Whether you're attending in person or want to grab a last-minute virtual ticket, learn more here: https://lnkd.in/giRtbFwQ #WebUnleashed #FITC #FrontEndDev

Interested in the future of precision medicine? Join InsightRX at IDWeek 2024 on Friday, Oct. 18, from 12:15 - 1:30 PM in Hall J&K to learn about advances in antibiotic dosing for infectious disease care. Why it matters: Antibiotics are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in hospitals and emergency departments. Because each person is unique, small deviations in dosing can dramatically impact outcomes for better or worse. InsightRx's software supports model-informed precision dosing to enable providers to use patients' unique pharmacological profiles to predict their responses to a given dosing regimen. This helps clinicians optimize regimens, reach clinical targets faster, reduce adverse events, and improve patient outcomes. At IDWeek, InsightRx will cover three abstracts on Bayesian model-informed precision dosing (MIPD) technology that address the challenges of antibiotic dosing to optimize therapeutic outcomes. IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP). Learn more about InsightRx and the three abstracts they will share here: https://lnkd.in/g8BigC8M #Healthtech #PrecisionMedicine #IDWeek2024

Last week, our recruiter, Caroline Thomas, participated in a thought-provoking panel at the Workforce Development Leadership Forum hosted by Goodwill Greater Milwaukee & Chicago. The forum centered on AI’s impact on the Midwest workforce, exploring how technology is changing how we work, the future of job roles, and important ethical considerations. Caroline's key takeaways include: • Hiring workflows are changing: AI is being used across the hiring process by both employees and employers. Care needs to be taken by both to do this effectively and ethically. • The human side matters: While AI can streamline tasks, there’s no substitute for the human touch in talent recruitment and workforce support. • It's time for upskilling: AI can help workforce employees and applicants enhance the skills they will need to stay on top of all of the changes. Workforce employees are experiencing workflow changes, in a similar way that the people they are screening experience job description changes. Everyone will need to adjust and advance. • Ethics: Seasoned workforce employees are concerned about scamming. Applicants worry about being overlooked. Employers need to balance efficiency with fairness in hiring and make sure that AI-driven systems are transparent and equitable. Thank you, Caroline, for contributing to this important conversation! #MidwestWorkforce #AIandInnovation #FutureOfWork